Brooke Bennett

Post Page Rank With the sad and frightening disappearance of Brooke Bennett, a twelve year old Vermont girl, online communities are once again forced to face public criticism. Public scrutiny is always needed. Criticism however is usually misplaced though. The public, especially uninformed parents likes to blame the online services every time something happens to a child. While there have been a few cases where some small companies have failed to act on information that is rarely the case. While I do not like blaming the parents of kids that had something happen to them because of their online activities, they are the ones ... Read Full Story

You may or may not remember back to July and the disappearance of Brooke Bennett. If it hadn’t been for me going through my own archives I would have thought about the case at all. To make a long story short she disappeared and everyone blamed it on her internet activities. Then the case quickly went away, I blogged about it on July 1, 2008 . In the end we found out she was not killed or kidnapped by an internet stranger, but a family member as is too often the case. No details have been released about the case and I am not ... Read Full Story

Police say that Brooke Bennett's uncle, Michael Jacques, posted the following on the now deceased 12-year-old's MySpace account in order too trick them into believing that she was abducted by a MySpace predator. Jacques reportedly posted it the night before she died: "I know i promised never 2 post u on this page but i know u read both of mine all the time. I don't care use my other one at my cousins because my aunt and uncle gotta know my passwords and stuff and get freaked. Nobody but u and me can know about the other one! I do want to see ... Read Full Story

An affidavit released by Orange County District Court in Vermont contains testimony from a 14-year-old girl who says deceased 12-year-old Brooke Bennett was being trained to be used for sexual acts. The unidentified witness state's that Bennett's uncle, Michael Jacques, 42 , and stepfather, Ray Gagnon, 40, were forcing the girl into something they called the "Breckenridge Program." Bennett and the witness were reportedly two of the three girls being prepared by the men to be used sexually. Here is a quote from the affidavit: "She further explained the Breckenridge program. In order to graduate, you had to attain 75% on how you perform. ... Read Full Story

(July 2, 2008) Brooke Bennett, who was last seen alive June 25, 2008, was found dead today by Vermont State Police. This is the latest chapter in a story that grows more bizzarre as it unfolds. It began when the 12-year-old girl went missing, sparking a search for the pretty young girl with green eyes. It wasn't long before Bennett's uncle, Michael Jacques, was arrested for an unrelated sexual assault case. The girl's stepfather was then arrested Tuesday, July 1 for sexually assaulting Bennett, but neither of the men have yet been implicated in her disappearance or death. The latest twist to this sickening ... Read Full Story